Taught In The Cotton

A stubborn historian. A drifter who fixes things and never stays. And one rotten schoolhouse standing in the way of the most powerful family in the county.Lindsey Ogelthorpe has poured two years and every scrap of her reputation into saving a one-room school in a Georgia cotton field - the last true thing left before the bulldozers turn the whole field into four hundred driveways. The town thinks she's odd. The developer thinks she's for sale. Nobody thinks she can win.Talbot Sammons was supposed to patch the roof and be gone by the time the leaves turned. He's got a truck he lives out of, a six-thousand-mile boat trip he's always about to take, and a real talent for leaving a place before it can learn his name. But somebody cut a notch in the schoolhouse porch to make it fall on its own - and the woman who crawled under the building to find it is the first thing in twenty years he can't picture driving away from.To save the schoolhouse, they'll have to outsmart a family that owns the town, drag a hundred years of buried history into the light, and cross a line neither of them can take back.Some things are only worth anything right where they stand.A warm, witty, closed-door Southern romance about stubborn women, wandering men, and the difference between a building that's still standing and one that's actually been saved. For readers who love small-town rivalries, slow-burn opposites, dry banter, and a hero who tests every stair before he trusts it.